Margaret Trudeau Quotes

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Margaret Trudeau

Profession : Author

Birth : September 10, 1948

Growing up in Vancouver in the 1950s, I was often capricious and temperamental, quick to laugh, even quicker to feel despair, prone to flailing my arms, pouting and crying when things didn't go my way, or I thought something was unfair, or I was bullied by my sisters.

Margaret Trudeau

I wince at some of the things I did as the young wife of Canada's fifteenth prime minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

Margaret Trudeau

At 65, most of us still have a lot to give and a lot to contribute.

Margaret Trudeau

A truly empowered woman turns her values into verbs. She understands what she values most, and she takes steps to bring that value to life.

Margaret Trudeau

I certainly don't have all the answers, but I know this to be true: we have a great degree of control over what happens to us in the last third of our lives.

Margaret Trudeau

Simply put, women should prepare in their 50s for the rest of their lives.

Margaret Trudeau

I have learned one thing: the only thing you can change about your husband is the way he dresses.

Margaret Trudeau

I turned 65 and thought, 'Oh my God, I'm a senior. How did this happen?'

Margaret Trudeau

I'm an old hippie who lives in the now. I seldom look forward, but we have to.

Margaret Trudeau

I was a late bloomer on the career front.

Margaret Trudeau

I don't think I'm marriage material, to tell you the truth. I'd be a bad choice. But I'd be darling at being a girlfriend.

Margaret Trudeau

I just want to find my individuality.

Margaret Trudeau

I've had enough of being public property.

Margaret Trudeau

Everywhere I go, particularly when there's people who know me or recognize me, I get the warmest hugs and happiest sighs full of hope and full of relief.

Margaret Trudeau

Who am I - Canada's Rodney Dangerfield? I get no respect.

Margaret Trudeau

I don't care about the respect of the press or the public or anybody. Whose respect every day I'm trying to garner is the respect of my children and my grandchildren and my friends, the people I work with.

Margaret Trudeau

I have worked hard to become happy. It was a real struggle.

Margaret Trudeau

I miss being exposed to the leading thinkers of the world.

Margaret Trudeau

There's nothing antifeminist about showing a lovely body; it's part of the person you are.

Margaret Trudeau

The label 'wife of the prime minister' is like a giant signboard pointing at my head from a Monty Python sketch. But I am not Mrs. Prime Minister. I'm a human being.

Margaret Trudeau